Word: mundy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procession filed through the Basilica, Pius XII was halted thrice. Before him a master of ceremonies thrice lit wisps of flax, chanting: "Sancte Pater, sic transit gloria mundi." Thus was the Visible Head of the Holy Church reminded that, even for him, the world's glories pass...
...Medical Research," told of the "first recorded experiment in medical science by a king himself," an experiment remarkably similar in technique to work done by scientists on guinea pigs today. Said Sir Edward: "Frederick the Second. Emperor of the Romans, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, known as Stupor Mundi, the Wonder of the World, A. D. 1192-1250. Of him it is recorded that he took two knights and gave them identical meals. One of these knights he then sent out hunting and the other he ordered to bed. Several hours later he killed both and examined the contents...
Written entirely in Latin, the letter is addressed to "Illustrissimi Domini Professors Literarum Anglicarum Novi Mundi," which interpreted is "The most illustrious professors of English Literature of the New World," i.e. of American Literature...
...transit gloria mundi," or so is the bubble of the Cambridge collegian pricked by the witty caustic observer from Smith who next chooses Yale as the place and the Yale man as the subject...
...president of the club, and picaresque heroine of the current show. He gives us Miss Mae La Verne, who is pretty well described by her first name, and he captures all the seductive coarseness that his playwright colleagues have put into the part. Arnett McKennan, '37, as Gloria Mundi (And some of the best touches are to be found in the names.) makes a wholly satisfactory simple-minded, love-tossed heroine. In general, where the show is not brilliant it is still consistently diverting, and should have a prosperous...